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I wouldn't renew Norton. I use Avira free antivirus. http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus And every 2 weeks I run free Malwarebytes to make sure nothing has snuck in. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Haven't had a serious virus or trojan in years.

"(Reuters) - The CME Group was granted a 90-day reprieve from imposing new rules that will hike margins for some exchange members by as much as a third, one day after news of the increase riled locals and roiled markets. The new rules, which would have increased trading costs for exchange...

The S&P 500 started 1985 at 164.57 and today is at 1405.82 (increased by a factor of 8.542). If the top wealthiest 5% of the US population had invested their $8 trillion in the S&P 500 at the start of 1985 and spent every cent of dividends received along the way they would have $68.336...

Don't know where you got that divisor, but the correct one is 0.132129493. http://online.barrons.com/public/page/9_0210-djhfhravg.html

The ES is down only 2.75. Over the last 5 trading days the ES has had a trading range of 30.75. Over the last 10 trading days the ES has had a trading range of 37.50. The market has thus gone nowhere for 2 weeks, so do you think that on Monday we will actually have a day that does go...

Of course I noticed that you were talking about DIA. I politely pointed out that you provided incorrect information and yet you insist on being ignorant. In order to match the DJIA the DIA is also price weighted. Just look at the "Fund Top Holdings"...

Time to update this thread. It must be extremely tough times for professional ES and YM traders. At the CME the price of an IOM seat has dropped to $95,000 and lease price is $450 (or less) a month. There are 32 seats available for lease. At the CBOT the price of an IDEM seat has...

My complaints about TWS are unfixed bugs, terrible charting and bloat. TWS works fine for entering buy and sell orders. For actual traders IB gives basic data feeds for free and only makes you pay for certain data feeds. IB doesn't make you pay for every data feed like TradeStation...

DJIA is a price weighted index.

The DJIA is an artificial construct and not tradeable. The DJIA relects the last traded price of the 30 component stocks. The last trade could have been at or on either side of the component's current bids and offers. If you buy the 30 component socks you will be buying at or near the current...

The DJIA does include the effect of dividends. How would an index calculation ignore the ex-dividends of the component stocks?

GLOBEX is the CME not the CBOE. You have to pick SMART(CBOE) to see the CBOE SPX option quotes.

SEC Charges optionsXpress and Five Individuals Involved in Abusive Naked Short Selling Scheme http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-66.htm

Other than having more than $250K in your account how do you get $0.50 RT commissions with Global Futures ?

Brokers aren't even paying interest on cash balances. So, how are you earning interest from short sales proceeds?

Normally for futures "brokers commissions" excludes exchange fees, platform fees and NFA fees and includes any broker clearing fees. Your mathematics leaves much to be desired. You divide by number of contracts, not by dollar amounts. $33.84 divided by 6 contracts RT equals $5.64 RT...

Don't hold your breath while waiting. And if a FIPC ever happens you will have to pay for it.

MBF Clearing is another one of the nonclearing FCMs that insists on using the word "Clearing" in the firm name. It seems that MBF Clearing was clearing their trades through MF Global. Here is their side of the (sad) story: "March 13th, 2012: During the financial crisis, MBF Clearing...

Nothing new here. Interactive Brokers is a retail broker and a clearing firm. As a clearing firm it has business with introducing brokers. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/pdfhighlights/PDF-Fully_Disclosed_Introducing_Broker.php

The problem with market orders is what happens when the market goes haywire. The ES has a thick book RTH 99.9% of the time. What happens that other 0.1% can be very expensive. Look at the one minute chart for 02/29/2012. The one minute bar starting at 03:59 PM has a range from 1365.50 down...